13th Floor Elevators

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From Austin, Texas, 13th Floor Elevators were quite possibly the first ever artists to describe their music as psychedelic. Their lyrics and sleeve notes openly and religiously endorsed the use of drugs, particularly LSD, in order to alter consciousness for the better.

They rattled to the middle of the Hot 100 in 1966 with

You’re Gonna Miss Me, anchored by Roky Erickson’s unforgettable yelping vocals, Stacy Sutherland’s guitar and Tommy Hall’s jug runs. According to myth Tommy’s jug was tuned by the amount of marijuana stored in it.

The group pioneered some of the first garage psychedelia on their albums The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators 1966, and the follow up Easter Everywhere 1967.

However Texas at this time was an extremely conservative area that still hadn’t come to terms with 50’s rock n roll. The authorities and police set out to, and not surprisingly succeeded, in busting the entire band for pot.

Stacy Sutherland was jailed, and in order to get out of a prison term Roky pleaded insanity landing in Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane for three years. This spelled the end of the band, although there was a posthumous 1969 LP Bull Of The Woods.
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Add this track to your playlist Slide Machine full track	3:43	7,232	Buy mp3
Add this track to your playlist Nobody to Love full track	2:59	6,509	Buy mp3
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–	1	Add this track to your playlist You're Gonna Miss Me	1,054
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Roller Coaster	366
1	3	Add this track to your playlist Fire Engine	287
1	4	Add this track to your playlist Don't Fall Down	286
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Tried to Hide	272
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Kingdom of Heaven	237
1	7	Add this track to your playlist Thru the Rhythm	234
1	8	Add this track to your playlist Monkey Island	232
1	9	Add this track to your playlist Reverberation (Doubt)	202
2	10	Add this track to your playlist Slip Inside This House	162
2	11	Add this track to your playlist You don't know	161
1	12	Add this track to your playlist Nobody to Love full track	160
1	13	Add this track to your playlist Splash 1	155
3	14	Add this track to your playlist Slide Machine full track	152
2	15	Add this track to your playlist Dust full track	137
–	16	Add this track to your playlist I Had to Tell You full track	133
1	16	Add this track to your playlist She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) full track	133
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Baby Blue full track	121
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Earthquake full track	118
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)	95

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–	1	Add this track to your playlist You're Gonna Miss Me	13,143
–	2	Add this track to your playlist Roller Coaster	5,058
–	3	Add this track to your playlist Fire Engine	4,546
–	4	Add this track to your playlist Don't Fall Down	4,246
–	5	Add this track to your playlist Monkey Island	3,922
–	6	Add this track to your playlist Tried to Hide	3,806
–	7	Add this track to your playlist Kingdom of Heaven	3,786
–	8	Add this track to your playlist Thru the Rhythm	3,685
–	9	Add this track to your playlist You don't know	2,937
–	10	Add this track to your playlist Reverberation (Doubt)	2,753
–	11	Add this track to your playlist Splash 1	2,398
1	12	Add this track to your playlist Slide Machine full track	2,345
1	13	Add this track to your playlist Slip Inside This House	2,315
–	14	Add this track to your playlist Nobody to Love full track	2,184
–	15	Add this track to your playlist Dust full track	2,051
–	16	Add this track to your playlist She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) full track	1,944
–	17	Add this track to your playlist I Had to Tell You full track	1,882
–	18	Add this track to your playlist Earthquake full track	1,791
–	19	Add this track to your playlist Baby Blue full track	1,783
–	20	Add this track to your playlist Splash 1 (Now I'm Home)	1,395
–	21	Add this track to your playlist Reverberation	1,125
–	22	Add this track to your playlist Postures (Leave Your Body Behind) full track	936
–	23	Add this track to your playlist You Don't Know (How Young You Are)	911
–	24	Add this track to your playlist Levitation	822
–	25	Add this track to your playlist You've Gonna Miss Me	771
–	26	Add this track to your playlist I've Got Levitation	691
–	27	Add this track to your playlist May the Circle Remain Unbroken	654
–	28	Add this track to your playlist Before You Accuse Me	636
–	29	Add this track to your playlist Never Another	617
–	30	Add this track to your playlist I'm Gonna Love You Too	609
1	31	Add this track to your playlist Scarlet And Gold	569
1	32	Add this track to your playlist Barnyard Blues	562
2	33	Add this track to your playlist Reverberation(Doubt)	552
1	34	Add this track to your playlist Everybody Needs Somebody To Love	537
1	35	Add this track to your playlist Down By The River	533
3	36	Add this track to your playlist You Really Got Me	528
3	37	Add this track to your playlist Livin' On	523
1	38	Add this track to your playlist Pictures (Leave Your Body Behind)	521
1	39	Add this track to your playlist Street Song

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